Project ACCESS offers resources to school district personnel who serve students with autism and related developmental disabilities. Check out some of our resources below!
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Free classroom resources for you to download and use in your classroom. You can find token charts, behavior visuals, and classroom activities all right here.
Click on a category to jump to those resources:
- Activities
- Behavior Visuals
- Check-in Zones
- CICO Resources
- Coffee Cart
- Communication
- Data Sheets
- Early Childhood
- Environmental Visual Supports
- Holiday Activities
- Prompting Hierarchy
- Social Skills
- Task Analysis
- Task Boxes
- Teacher Tools
- Token Boards
- Visual Schedules and First-Then
A special link to a treasure trove of resources from Pennsylvania's PaTTAN Center:
Find files that support your use of the PaTTAN Verbal Behavior TrainingDo you have a great resource that you have created that you would like to share? If you agree to the Creative Commons Sharealike Noncommercial copyright and are willing to share it according to our resource sharing policy, you may use this Project ACCESS resource sharing upload link to share it with us. We can only accept certain file types and certain sizes (this is detailed in the upload form and in the sharing policy). After you submit, we will review and if your item is posted, we will send you an email advising you so. Submission of an item is considered acknowledgement and acceptance of the sharing policy linked above. Thanks for considering sharing with your colleagues!
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View and download Project ACCESS Fact Sheets
Fact sheets include information on different evidence based practices, classroom systems and procedures, and hot topics in education, There are many linked resources and additional readings!
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Our video library is a great place to learn more about evidence based practices, technology in the classroom, and how to implement strategies in the classroom.
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Evidence Based Practices Information
Overview of what EBPs are and resources to learn more about each EBP!
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Help the parents in your district locate the sensory friendly movie or the dentist with experience working with children with autism. Crowd sourced maps that are specific to your community can help!
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DESE Autism Resources
- The special education eligibility criteria for autism are available on the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's website (DESE).
- DESE's Division of Special Education maintains an email mailing list: Special Education ListServ
- DESE Effective Practice Autism Resources
- The Special Education Process and Changes in IDEA 2004
- Bryce's Law Information
- Missouri's Regional Professional Development Centers
The hyperlinks below are to special pages on DESE's website that contain specific information about complying with federal special education legislation.
- Missouri State Plan for Special Education: Regulations Implementing Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- Local Plan for Compliance with State Regulations Implementing Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Act
- Special Education Compliance: Program Review Standards and Indicators
- Missouri Division of Special Education Compliance Standards & Indicators Eligibility Criteria: Autism
- Webinar: Parents' Rights Under IDEA
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Want to learn the basics about autism, what it is, and where to start? Find all of that and more right here!